Ok, honor, you win. If ever there was a smartphone record created for the sake of it, the "highest altittude livestream" category must be it. The honor 8 was placed in a weather balloon, and took off from the SSC Esrange Space Center in Sweden. The balloon reached18,421 meters (60,436 feet) before bursting, with the phone falling gently down aided by a parachute. The resulting footage will be forever etched in mankind's collective memory.

Highest altitude smartphone livestream (Honor 8)

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Make of it what you will, but one David Contorno, of Lemont, Illinois, USA, has continuously hollered from the same cell phone number since 1985, when he got his first Ameritech AC140, and has been using that same number ever since, now in the loving embrace of AT&T. The phone number in question is 312-550-0512, if you want to call the guy and congratulate him on his number loyalty. Hey, most folks don't even have landlines they've hold onto for that long!

We are listing this one here not because small caliber handguns disguised as cell phones are something new, but there is something strange about the record holder - an obscure invention from Croatia seized by EU authorities in 2003. We all know that there are more powerful cell phone handguns out there, now, don't we, and disguised as iPhones at that.

Most powerful cell phone gun

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Ok, this one's a doozy, but don't you dare tell the 275 participants in an event organised by Open Mobile and Motorola in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 14 November 2007 that their record was actually smashed by 330 pupils and staff at Caterham School in the UK for a charity event, and that's their photo to prove it.

We can't help but finish with our favorite sporting discipline - phone throwing. While the Finns were on the brink to make it a national sport, the farthest mobile phone throw by an individual record actually belongs to a Brit, one Chris Hughff, who hurled his cell phone at a 314 ft 5 in (95.83m) distance during the 2007 UK Mobile Throwing Championships. There have been better attempts later on, like the Ben Langton-Burnell Nokia N5 throw you see in the video here, but they seemingly aren't yet recorded in the Guinness records. The javelin thrower hurled his Nokia 120.65m, back in 2013, giving it everything he's got. Now this should be in the Olympics.

Farthest mobile phone throw by an individual

The weirdest phone entries in the Guinness World Records

Ok, honor, you win. If ever there was a smartphone record created for the sake of it, the "highest altittude livestream" category must be it. The honor 8 was placed in a weather balloon, and took off from the SSC Esrange Space Center in Sweden. The balloon reached18,421 meters (60,436 feet) before bursting, with the phone falling gently down aided by a parachute. The resulting footage will be forever etched in mankind's collective memory.

The weirdest phone entries in the Guinness World Records

1. Highest altitude smartphone livestream (Honor 8)

Ok, honor, you win. If ever there was a smartphone record created for the sake of it, the "highest altittude livestream" category must be it. The honor 8 was placed in a weather balloon, and took off from the SSC Esrange Space Center in Sweden. The balloon reached18,421 meters (60,436 feet) before bursting, with the phone falling gently down aided by a parachute. The resulting footage will be forever etched in mankind's collective memory.

2. Most durable mobile phone number (cellular phone number)

Make of it what you will, but one David Contorno, of Lemont, Illinois, USA, has continuously hollered from the same cell phone number since 1985, when he got his first Ameritech AC140, and has been using that same number ever since, now in the loving embrace of AT&T. The phone number in question is 312-550-0512, if you want to call the guy and congratulate him on his number loyalty. Hey, most folks don't even have landlines they've hold onto for that long!

3. Most powerful cell phone gun

We are listing this one here not because small caliber handguns disguised as cell phones are something new, but there is something strange about the record holder - an obscure invention from Croatia seized by EU authorities in 2003. We all know that there are more powerful cell phone handguns out there, now, don't we, and disguised as iPhones at that.

4. Largest gathering of people dressed as mobile phones

Ok, this one's a doozy, but don't you dare tell the 275 participants in an event organised by Open Mobile and Motorola in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 14 November 2007 that their record was actually smashed by 330 pupils and staff at Caterham School in the UK for a charity event, and that's their photo to prove it.

5. Farthest mobile phone throw by an individual

We can't help but finish with our favorite sporting discipline - phone throwing. While the Finns were on the brink to make it a national sport, the farthest mobile phone throw by an individual record actually belongs to a Brit, one Chris Hughff, who hurled his cell phone at a 314 ft 5 in (95.83m) distance during the 2007 UK Mobile Throwing Championships. There have been better attempts later on, like the Ben Langton-Burnell Nokia N5 throw you see in the video here, but they seemingly aren't yet recorded in the Guinness records. The javelin thrower hurled his Nokia 120.65m, back in 2013, giving it everything he's got. Now this should be in the Olympics.

There is no shortage of phone-related listings in the Guinness World Records, but, as these things go, people are often submitting entries in obscure categories, or ones made straight out of thin air, in order to stand a chance in the crowded "records" business. Check out some of the stranger phone-tastic achievements that have wiggled their way into the Guinness World Records - some of those really make you yearn for a cold pint bottoms up.

In all seriousness, though, I did know some people who had Motorola i530's, hated them with a passion, and would throw them onto the concrete in anger, hoping that they would break and get replaced by their employer, but hoping to no avail. They were horrible phones, but they were practically tanks.

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